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British Nationality: Chagossians

Asked by Andrew RosindellReform UKHome OfficeTabled Answered 25 October 2024UIN 9420

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people of Chagossian descent have applied for (a) British overseas territories and (b) British citizenship in the last five years for which data is available, broken down by the country in which each applicant lived at the time of application.

Answered by Seema Malhotra

We are unable to provide this data as we do not record data relating to an individual’s ancestry.

Whilst the BIOT (British Indian Oceans Territory) citizenship registration route was introduced in November 2022, there may be people of Chagossian descent who have applied outside of this route within the requested period and we would not be able to identify such cases.

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